Am I just old fashioned or is this actually rude as hell?

My cousin (25) stayed the night with us and had someone in her ear the entire time last night and literally all day today. Like… we couldn’t even tell if she was talking to us or the person on the phone half the time.

I get being on the phone, I really do but if you’re staying at someone’s house to spend time with them, shouldn’t you actually be present?? Not basically hanging out with someone else the whole time through an earpiece?

It turned into a huge argument, and instead of hearing us out, she screamed at me and my mom and had her dad come get her.

What really pushed me over the edge though… we ended up taking care of her baby half the time. And when he got hurt, he came to us, not even her. That broke my heart a little, honestly.

I’m just so frustrated. I don’t feel like we were asking for much just basic respect and attention while you’re a guest in someone’s home.

Tell me honestly… am I overreacting or would this bother you too?

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DanielsASJ · 36-40, M

She should have been more attentive to you people as basic courtesy but phone had already taken that over. Now a new style of wireless ear phones have just made people more Anti social. I wonder why in this world would people talk to each other when they will have driver-less cars, waiter-less restaurants, teacher-less classes, head-less master AI. It will make each of us more and more Anti social. 5 years ago, on this website also, people used to be more social - not as in filling each other's inbox but a Pic of their lunch, breakfast or their pathway to work, their lunch break hangouts. Nowadays, everything is missing. So, we as a society are turning into something else, I would say a transition, good or bad, I do not know. But less social skills means less population and eventually fulfilling the Champion Malthusian Curve and which suggests howsoever we increase our population, there will be a trajectory which will lose it all out back to square one.